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Some extremal results on hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problems

Combinatorics 2021-08-02 v3

Abstract

For two rr-graphs T\mathcal{T} and H\mathcal{H}, let exr(n,T,H)\text{ex}_{r}(n,\mathcal{T},\mathcal{H}) be the maximum number of copies of T\mathcal{T} in an nn-vertex H\mathcal{H}-free rr-graph. The determination of Tur\'{a}n number exr(n,T,H)\text{ex}_{r}(n,\mathcal{T},\mathcal{H}) has become the fundamental core problem in extremal graph theory ever since the pioneering work Tur\'{a}n's Theorem was published in 19411941. Although we have some rich results for the simple graph case, only sporadic results have been known for the hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problems. In this paper, we mainly focus on the function exr(n,T,H)\text{ex}_{r}(n,\mathcal{T},\mathcal{H}) when H\mathcal{H} is one of two different hypergraph extensions of the complete bipartite graph Ks,tK_{s,t}. The first extension is the complete bipartite rr-graph Ks,t(r)K_{s,t}^{(r)}, which was introduced by Mubayi and Verstra\"{e}te~[J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 106: 237--253, 2004]. Using the powerful random algebraic method, we show that if ss is sufficiently larger than tt, then exr(n,T,Ks,t(r))=Ω(nvet),\text{ex}_{r}(n,\mathcal{T},K_{s,t}^{(r)})=\Omega(n^{v-\frac{e}{t}}), where T\mathcal{T} is an rr-graph with vv vertices and ee edges. In particular, when T\mathcal{T} is an edge or some specified complete bipartite rr-graph, we can determine their asymptotics. The second important extension is the complete rr-partite rr-graph Ks1,s2,,sr(r)K_{s_{1},s_{2},\ldots,s_{r}}^{(r)}, which has been widely studied. When r=3r=3, we provide an explicit construction giving ex3(n,K2,2,7(3))127n197+o(n197).\text{ex}_{3}(n,K_{2,2,7}^{(3)})\geqslant\frac{1}{27}n^{\frac{19}{7}}+o(n^{\frac{19}{7}}). Our construction is based on the Norm graph, and improves the lower bound Ω(n7327)\Omega(n^{\frac{73}{27}}) obtained by probabilistic method.

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@article{arxiv.1905.01685,
  title  = {Some extremal results on hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problems},
  author = {Zixiang Xu and Tao Zhang and Gennian Ge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01685},
  year   = {2021}
}

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